Make $5,000 Monthly on Instagram
Making $5,000 in only one month on Instagram may seem like an impossible task, but these screenshots that I’m showing right now show that you can still do it. You don’t need to be a pro at editing videos, and you can use apps that you probably already have on your phone. I’m going to show you an example of someone that reached a full-time income on Instagram after only 8 weeks, and I’m going to show exactly how you can do this yourself.
Instagram Reels Strategy
What opportunity are we specifically talking about here? Specifically, I’m talking about Instagram Reels. I’m going to show you a specific strategy that I have personally used to make hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I’m going to show you how you can do this very quickly using a secret formula that gets your Instagram Reels to go viral, which multiplies your income by 10 or 20 times.
Instagram Reels Evolution
Now back in 2020, Instagram, using Short Form Videos with Giveaways, came out with Reels to try to keep up with TikTok and the short video trend, and they’ve been pushing more and more traffic into Reels even to this day. With this new feature that’s now available to creators on Instagram, it opened up an opportunity to make money with videos on Instagram in a very very short amount of time.
62,000 Followers Success Story
That’s what we’re going to talk about today, and if this sounds too good to be true, I want you to take a look at this Creator right here that made thousands upon thousands of dollars and gained 62,000 followers in 8 weeks, and we’re going to take a look at this as example for how you can do this yourself.
Target Audience Strategy
Now if you look, it looks like a pretty simple Instagram Reels account. You can see he’s basically just posting Reels about money, about supercars, videos with Dubai and other top vacation destinations, but there’s much more than meets the eye with this account. Why? The secret here is that he has his audience pegged to a T. He knows that they’re young guys who want to make money online, specifically using short form videos, and so he’s created videos that really appeal to this specific group of people and really hit on their emotions and their deepest desires.
Video Content Example
Simple, right? But the key here is that then he goes on to share the steps to actually accomplish that goal, includes using a product that this Instagram owner has created. If you look at the end of the video you can see here, anyone that wants to get the free guide and comments with the word “crayo” is going to get a DM or a direct message from this Instagram owner, and in that DM he’s going to tell everyone to join his email list to get the free guide, and then the free guide will actually be emailed to you.
Free Guide Strategy
This is really the trick to making a lot of money very very quickly. I’m going to show you there’s another trick I’m going to show you in just a second, but this one is one of the main keys to making a lot of money with Instagram Reels is giving away something for free in the DM area, in the direct message area of Instagram, and I can confirm that this works ‘cuz it’s the exact same thing that I’m actually doing right here on YouTube.
DM Marketing Method
I’m giving away a free class which is an amazing free class. When you get the free class and the other free information that we send to your email, you’re like “Wow, this guy has some amazing free content,” and then I talked to you about joining my paid membership program as well. So we teach you in the free class how to set up an autopilot online business, but then we also sell a paid program after you get the free class, and it’s the exact same thing that this Instagram guy is using that I’m using as my example – it’s the key to making big money on any social media platform.
Free Class Marketing
I’m giving away a free class which is an amazing free class. When you get the free class and the other free information that we send to your email, you’re like “Wow, this guy has some amazing free content,” and then I talked to you about joining my paid membership program as well. So we teach you in the free class how to set up an autopilot online business, but then we also sell a paid program after you get the free class, and it’s the exact same thing that this Instagram guy is using that I’m using as my example – it’s the key to making big money on any social media platform.
Results Preview
I want you to check this one out. At the end of this video right here it says “Do you want results like this? “Do you want to earn $10,000 per month?”
Follow for Success
Do you want to learn how to do that for free? In this one, he does another thing which is crucial to his success. First, he says to follow Crayo AI, so follow his Instagram account. What that means is, after you click follow, anytime he posts a new video, that’s going to show up in your feed.
Like and Comment Strategy
Then after that, he says “Like this reel,” so you click on the heart and you like it. What that’s going to do is tell the Instagram algorithm to show this video again and again and again to more and more people. Then third, he says leave a comment “TTA,” and what’s going to happen then when you leave a comment “TTA,” then he’s going to send you a DM.
Email List Growth
What’s going to be in the DM? A link to join his email list to get the free guide on how to make $10,000 a month. This is the other key to his success because he’s saying, “Hey, if you want this free guide, you have to like my Instagram and you have to click follow.” That makes Instagram promote his videos and his content for free more and more and more because so many people are liking and following it that Instagram says, “Hey, this must be a really popular set of videos that people really like. Let’s show it to even more people.”
Viral Success
That causes his account and his videos to go viral. As you can see, he got 62,000 followers in only 8 weeks. Then you join his list to get the free guide. He’s going to send you even more emails promoting his paid product, and even the free guide itself. When you go through the free guide, it’s going to show you the steps to making $10,000 a month, but one of those steps in the free guide is buying his thing. You have to buy his thing and use it in order to make $10,000 a month.
Snowball Effect
He’s got that built in multiple layers. Not only is he giving away some awesome free content, not only is he then selling a paid product through the free content, but he’s also having each person that watches his videos promote the videos through the algorithm by liking, commenting, and following him. It just becomes this Snowball Effect, and the momentum of the account just rolls faster and faster and faster, which is you can see right here from his stats.
Income Proof
Now I happen to know for a fact that he has made thousands upon thousands of dollars using this, and the only promotion strategy he’s using is what you see right here – Instagram reels on this exact account. His email list now, I know for a fact, has reached over 100,000 people. His Instagram is blowing up, and he’s making thousands and thousands of dollars in eight weeks. I know it sounds crazy, but clearly it’s worked, and so many other creators are doing the same thing.
Value First
You, I’m sure, have seen other videos out there where they say comment with a certain word or send a DM with a certain word. They’re all using the same strategy that I’m talking about, but the whole key to it is offering value in advance for free in the form of a free guide or a free video. Or even like I’m doing in this video, offering a free class, a free training like I’m offering in the link in the description of this video to get people to join my email list.
Email Marketing
That’s what you want to be doing. You always want to get people to join your list so that you can promote to them over and over through email. Most of the time, if you offer something with enough value like even I’m offering here with a free class, if you offer a free class or a free guide, people will give up their email to receive that. Make sure you deliver it to them through the email so that they have to give you the correct email address, or else they don’t get it.
Affiliate Marketing
Find a Product to Promote: So you’re probably asking a lot of questions right now. “How do I make these videos? Give me more detail on how to actually do that.” So let’s get into the details of getting started with this. If you don’t have your own product to sell like Crayo (he has his own product that he’s selling through Instagram), but if you don’t have your own product, the easiest approach to make as much money as quickly as possible is by promoting someone else’s product.
Getting Started
That’s what affiliate marketing is all about. When you do affiliate marketing, you receive a little link that is unique to you. It’s a tracking link so that anyone that clicks on that tracking link and buys, you get a percentage of that sale. So the first thing that you want to do is look for something to promote. You can sign up for the Shopify affiliate program, you can sign up for the Amazon affiliate program.
ClickBank Commissions
These are some of the big ones you can sign up for. ClickBank, but I often recommend ClickBank above all the others because you can get the highest dollar amount as your commission that I found anywhere pretty much is through ClickBank ,Here’s some just some examples: $1,200, that’s the commission you would receive by selling one product from this person right here – $1,200, $1,100, $914, $853. These are high, high-ticket commissions.
Monthly Income Potential
Just imagine with this top one, all you would need to do is sell around 10 of these per month, and you would have way more than a full-time income, like $120-$130,000 US per year. You can see here on the left, ClickBank has a lot of different categories, almost any category you know. Just whatever kind of videos you’re making, you can almost always find a product in ClickBank to promote and receive quite a bit of money for each sale.
Product Selection
One good thing to do is actually to, when you pick what you’re going to make your videos about, actually use the list of available products to help you decide on your topic. So for example, I would go down this and help make this list here on the left be the list that you’re restricting what topics you’re going to talk about to this specific list. That way, you know you have something that you can sell from your videos. Pick a product category, pick a product that you want to promote, and then it’s time to actually create your Instagram Reel video.
Creating Instagram Reels
To create your Instagram reel now, to put your reel together, click on your profile button on the bottom right of your Instagram account, and then click on the plus sign at the top of your profile page and select “Reel.” After you do that, you can choose something from Clip Hub, you can choose transitions, you can choose music, there’s even templates that you can scroll through to give you a starting point for creating your reel.
Recording Options
You can just start 100% from scratch and just click on camera and just record your own self or something in your surroundings with the camera on your phone. Here you can start recording a new video, or you can even upload a video that you’ve already recorded. My son actually does Instagram reels, he creates the videos, and then he uses this to upload videos that he’s already created.
Simple Video Creation
If you get overwhelmed, I want you to go back to this Crayo and just take a look at some of the videos that he’s made. They’re very, very short, some of them are only 10 seconds long or less, they’re very, very simple. So it doesn’t have to be complicated, doesn’t have to have a lot of fancy editing and fancy effects, it just has to really hit your viewers’ emotions very, very strong.
Instagram Features
There’s plenty of things in the Instagram toolbox where they actually help you to create reels that will allow you to make videos just like this Crayo Instagram account has made. You can add trending music, you can add different effects, you can even change the layout to duplicate your screen, you can even use a green screen option where you show yourself talking while there’s something in the background behind you like an exotic car or something like that.
Adding Text Overlays
The next step, you just want to add some text, and again, you’ll see from this Crayo account, a lot of times he has text over the top of it which is kind of like the main message that he’s trying to give to his viewer. This text is going to be your call to action, so it could be something like, if we were in the make money online video area, we’d say, “Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Leave a comment with the word ‘MONEY’ for your free guide to Financial Freedom!” Something like that. You could even put like emojis in there.
Publishing Content
You can see Crayo does a lot of that. You can change the size of your words, and again, just like Crayo’s shown us, you don’t have to go crazy with editing or anything like that. You just have to give something of value for free to your viewers. Now, once you’ve chosen your music, you’ve written your call to action and your description, and you’ve added hashtags, you’ve chosen your relevant topics and your location.
Content Automation
Now after you have your reels published and people are watching them, now is a very important part of the process: Automate your Process. Because when your videos grow, you can start up by doing everything manually – people leave a comment and you just manually send them a direct message or a DM with the free thing that you’re offering. When you’re not getting a ton of views, you can do that manually, but eventually your Instagram account is going to start to blow up if you’re consistent with this.
Scaling Your Business
Your videos are going to get a lot of views, you’re going to have a ton of comments and a ton of DMs to deal with, and that’s where automation comes in. You can actually automate the entire process of delivering the free thing.
Automated Email Marketing System for Online Business
And get my free class and setting up an online business – an autopilot business! I have software that automatically emails you the free class, so I don’t have to do that myself, typing out an email to each person. It’s automatically sent, and that’s what you want to do with your Instagram DMs as well.
ManyChat Integration with Social Media
A pretty popular tool to use for this is called ManyChat, and ManyChat can actually sync up with your DMs on Instagram. It can connect with other accounts too, like TikTok, WhatsApp, Facebook, but the nice thing about ManyChat is that it allows you to not have to respond manually to each DM, and you can actually set it up so that anytime it sees the word, for example “dream” or “money” (or you can pick any kind of word that you want), anytime it sees that word in a DM, it sends an auto-response with whatever you tell it to respond with. And if they don’t type that word at all, then the DM just sits there in your inbox waiting to be manually replied to.
Automated DM Response Strategy
Let’s say we’re doing a “make money online” video, we could say “Hey, send me a DM with the word ‘money’ and I’ll send you a free guide on making $5,000 a month.” For example, I’m just making this off the top of my head, but then you set up ManyChat so anytime a DM comes in with the word “money,” ManyChat automatically replies to that person with a link to the free thing that you’re giving them, and that way you don’t have to do anything manually.
Automated Growth System
The whole thing starts to grow automatically that way. As people are joining your email list and downloading your free guide or free video or whatever it is, it’s all growing automatically without you having to do it yourself. And that’s it – those are the secrets to blowing up Instagram and making a ton of money off Instagram Reels.
Posting Requirements and Time Investment
But I do want to say – 18:41 Challenges of Instagram Reels Marketing – there are a couple disadvantages to this strategy. The first one, and one of the biggest ones, is that in order for this strategy to work, you have to post a lot of Reels. In the example I showed in this video with Crayo, he was posting three to five reels every single day. That’s hundreds of reels in the last eight weeks, and that’s partly how he grew so fast.
Consistency and Content Creation Demands
So it’s very important that you be very consistent, and that you post a ton of reels every single day. And not only that, but each one has to be a different Reel – you can’t just post the same one over and over because otherwise your audience will stop watching your videos. So it’s definitely not an autopilot strategy, it’s not a residual income strategy because there’s so much work on a day-to-day basis having to create multiple reels like two to five reels every single day and being very consistent with it. You don’t want to even miss a single day.
Alternative Autopilot Business System
So this isn’t really going to provide you with residual income. If you’re looking for residual income or for autopilot income that comes in automatically, you really want to take my free class. Because in that free class, we teach you a strategy that sets up an autopilot business. There’s a little bit of work at the beginning setting up the whole system, but once it’s set up, it just cranks out money for you day in and day out – whether you’re sleeping, whether you’re awake, whether you’re working or not.
Success Story and Proof of Concept
You don’t have to be posting videos all the time, you don’t have to be doing really any work on a day-to-day basis, hardly anything once you do the initial work of setting it up. And I know because my own daughter actually has a business like this. She very rarely ever touches it – in fact, sometimes when I’m recording these YouTube videos, she drives by in her motorcycle. I see her shoot passed on her motorcycle while she’s driving her motorcycle around town. Her online business that she’s used with this strategy is just generating income for her day in and day out.
ManyChat and Technical Considerations
The second disadvantage is it’s going to take you some time to learn how to use ManyChat if you don’t already know how to use it. Also, ManyChat is not free. Although having an Instagram account is free and creating these reels can be free, ManyChat is not going to be free, so there’s going to be a cost to that.
Email Marketing System Requirements
And then the third thing is you’re going to have to learn how to set up an email marketing system. Now I have other videos on my YouTube channel here – in fact, I have a whole video on email marketing that you can watch. It’s a one-hour guide, but you are going to have to learn about email marketing, and you’re going to have to learn to set up a lot of email Marketing Systems.
Strategy Drawbacks and Daily Commitment
So those are kind of some of the disadvantages of using this Instagram Reel strategy. I think the biggest disadvantage of it is that it is really a grind having to create three to five videos every day. You have to be very dedicated to it, and it can get old really fast.
Free Class Promotion and Conclusion
So that’s why I’m offering a free class in this video on an autopilot business where once you do the initial work, you don’t have to do ongoing work on a day-to-day basis, and it brings in residual income. I’ll teach you how to set up a business where you have more control over your time, you have more control over your day-to-day, you don’t have to work every day, and I think the upside of that type of a business is much stronger even than the upside of doing Instagram Reels. But either way, Instagram Reels will work for you as long as you’re willing to put in the work.